Last month, this incredible press booklet for The Master Mystery, sold for $4,200.00 (not including buyer’s premium) at a Potter & Potter Auction. I would love to have added this to my collection. Congratulations to winner!
Below is the description of Lot 298:
Houdini, Harry. Press Booklet for The Master Mystery. New York: B.A. Rolfe Productions, (1919). Sixteen different folio-sized (12 x 9”) film exchange publicity cards featuring illustrated scenes from the serial, including Houdini and “Q” (the Automaton), beautifully printed in a variety of colors on a mixture of coarse, textured papers; with other enclosures as issued, including two promotional pictorial puzzle booklets featuring Houdini, two unused hold-to-light mystery labels depicting Houdini upside-down in shackles, and several of the studio’s newsprint-style “supplementary press sheets” providing publicity copy for each installment, all laid down; with poster distribution and booking statistics sheets at rear; in a pebbled black cloth Rolfe binder, some cards hole-punched as issued. Five of the publicity cards soiled at bottom right, a few others with small losses and creasing at upper or same.
Hopefully whoever won this treasure of treasures will make it all available for others to see in the future. Meanwhile, enjoy the publicity card images above and the related posts with other images of publicity cards below.
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